Safdar Nagori

Safdar Nagori (1973-) was the Secretary-General of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen terrorist groups in India.

Biography
Safdar Nagori was born around 1973 in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns. In 1991 he joined the Students Islamic Movement of India, and in 2001 he became the leader of a faction of SIMI that decided to continue armed jihad as the main group sought a return to religious and academic activities. In 2003 he moved to Mumbai, and under his leadership SIMI students were used by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), and Harakat ul-Jihad e-Islami (HUJI) for attacks. By 2007, Karnataka's jungles were being used as training bases for Islamists, and in 2008 Nagori was arrested.